Federal Employee May Have Been Cooking Meth at Government Agency’s Campus

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http://www.govexec.com/oversight/2015/07/fbi-and-congress-are-investigating-if-meth-lab-exploded-federal-building/118751/

By Eric Katz
Govexec.com
July 30, 2015

A federal employee may have recently learned the hard way that cooking 
meth should be left to the chemistry experts.

The FBI and a congressional committee are investigating whether a federal 
worker was manufacturing methamphetamine in a federal building after a 
room exploded earlier this month.

After a July 18 explosion at a building at the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology’s Gaithersburg, Md., campus, authorities found 
many of the key ingredients for making meth and a recipe for the drug, 
according to News4, the NBC’s Washington, D.C., affiliate. The House 
Science, Space and Technology Committee is looking into whether a federal 
police lieutenant who was injured in the blast was involved in cooking the 
meth.

The lieutenant resigned from NIST last week, according to The Washington 
Post. The officer originally told authorities the blast occurred after 
trying to refill a butane lighter.

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